Why should WhatsApp pay MTN when users already pay for data?

It has nothing to with the legislation and all to do with the apparent loss of revenue due to the fact that subscribers are not sending as much text messages as they used to. Text messages have a huge profit margin.
 
Kingofmybbknowitalls said:
It has nothing to with the legislation and all to do with the apparent loss of revenue due to the fact that subscribers are not sending as much text messages as they used to. Text messages have a huge profit margin.
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And yet RCS have been available for ages. Networks did not implement it, and OTT players came along and stole the bone.
 
Its like saying Clash of Clans should pay for in game messaging.... ugh...
*New app idea* - Family & Friends Clans!!! :D.
 
Ockie said:
And yet RCS have been available for ages. Networks did not implement it, and OTT players came along and stole the bone.
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Well, my mother and her friends have all started to use WhatsApp recently. This is as their contracts have been renewed, and most of them have ended up with some sort of Samsung Ace or whatever the very basic Android phone is on the cheap contracts.

It took a while but they are all using Whatsapp now for messages and pictures. In fact they are using it a lot more, since most of them have wifi at home off ADSL there is very little extra data cost.

And now they are using it for phone calls too. These older folk have always been the "mom and pops" that kept using the old SMS and voice calls, and this is changing very quickly.

Our operators realize this, albeit too late and now trying to use silly rules to try and keep their golden egg.
 
They should wait until people discover that you can make calls using Whatsapp. These companies are doing it wrong. Instead they should invest more in LTE make it more ubiquitous and cheaper, make the users more addicted to data intensive activities like Netflix, Youtube, Music. That is where my future is at. Sms is dead everywhere except the US.
 
ngwe23 said:
They should wait until people discover that you can make calls using Whatsapp. These companies are doing it wrong. Instead they should invest more in LTE make it more ubiquitous and cheaper, make the users more addicted to data intensive activities like Netflix, Youtube, Music. That is where my future is at. Sms is dead everywhere except the US.
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lol.
 
ngwe23 said:
They should wait until people discover that you can make calls using Whatsapp. These companies are doing it wrong. Instead they should invest more in LTE make it more ubiquitous and cheaper, make the users more addicted to data intensive activities like Netflix, Youtube, Music. That is where my future is at. Sms is dead everywhere except the US.
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I still communicate via sms. I don't have time for chitchat on WhatsApp and the like... With sms people say what they must and p!ss off because they're actually paying for it.
 
Hush9300 said:
I still communicate via sms. I don't have time for chitchat on WhatsApp and the like... With sms people say what they must and p!ss off because they're actually paying for it.
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You are whats wrong with this world. Do you not know that ever time you send an sms a kitten somewhere dies.
 
ngwe23 said:
They should wait until people discover that you can make calls using Whatsapp. These companies are doing it wrong. Instead they should invest more in LTE make it more ubiquitous and cheaper, make the users more addicted to data intensive activities like Netflix, Youtube, Music. That is where my future is at.
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You sir, are 1000% correct. That is what I tried to tell a certain cellular operator when I worked in their product management team many years ago. The bandwidth is a commodity, it's the services you sell across it that differentiates you and keeps your customers and keeps your revenue stream.
 
Hush9300 said:
I still communicate via sms. I don't have time for chitchat on WhatsApp and the like... With sms people say what they must and p!ss off because they're actually paying for it.
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Meh. I communicate way more with family and long-distance friends & relatives because of the ease with which things like whatsapp allows us to communicate and share media.

Send my regards to the 90's!
 
whatwhat said:
This is Africa.

Common sense hasn't arrived yet.
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Actually, the very same thing played out in the US recently with the same argument made by telcos there. Just substitute Whatsapp/WeChat with Netflix.
 
i spend 90% of my time on wifi networks cause mtn network is so crap , and now they want to bill more
 
ngwe23 said:
They should wait until people discover that you can make calls using Whatsapp. These companies are doing it wrong. Instead they should invest more in LTE make it more ubiquitous and cheaper, make the users more addicted to data intensive activities like Netflix, Youtube, Music. That is where my future is at. Sms is dead everywhere except the US.
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Wodayamean? :confused:
 
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